Re: FN-FORUM: streaming video encoding and hosting

date posted 22nd August 2003 13:38

Jamie Wilson [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

> - hosting of said content.

Host the video content in the US, cost will have two factors, one is size
of the encoded clips in terms of disk space. Multiply that with number of
potential downloads and you'll get bandwidth requirement. We provide some
US hosted packages aimed at high bandwidth requirements.

> i actually think the biggest cost is going to be in the encoding of the
> video. this problem has only just been thrown at me, but i'm suspecting
> it may work out cheaper to encode in house.

Just quite a bind to manually do 100+ tapes more than anything, I guess!

-Paul-

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